Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-29
WORKINGMEN.
Read the Republican State Platform BE-
fore You Cast Your Vote.

Read the Republican State Platform BE-
fore You Cast Your Vote.
The first two planks of the Republican
state platform are of interest to work.
ingmen:
1. We are in favor of a protective
tariff, to secsre to American citizens the
privilege of supplying every article which
can be produced as well in the United
States as in other countries, and sufficient
to supply American wants. Such tariff
makes a demand for and gives employ
ment to the labor of American citizens,
and thereby aids in securing Just COM
pensation for labor. We denounce the
Ohio Democratic platform of tariff for
revenue only, and which demands an in
discriminate reduction m all duties on
imported articles, the effect of which
would be to encourage importations, thus
giving American patronage to foreign
producers and foreign labor rather than
to our own.
2 While we adhere to the public policy
under which our country has received
from Europe great bodies of honest, in
dustrious citizens who have added to the
wealth, progress and power of our coun-
try, and while we welcome to our shores
the well-disposed and industrious emil
grant who contributes by his energy and
intelligence to the cause Of free govern
ment, we view with alarm unrestricted
immigration from foreign lands as dam
gerous to the peace and good order Of the
country, and the integrity and character
of its citizenship We urge congress to
pass such laws and establish such regu-
lations as shall protect us from the in
road of the anarchist, the communist,
the polygamist, the fugitive from Justice,
the insane, the dependent paupers, the
vicious and criminal classes, contract
labor in every form under any name or
guise; and all others who seek our shores,
not to become part of our civilization
and citizenship, who acknowledge no al
legiance to our laws, no sympathy with
our aims and institutions, but who come
among us to make war upon society, to
diminish the dignity and rewards Of
American workingmen and degrade our
labor to their level. Against all these
our gates should be closed But while
favoring every honorable and practical
measure to protect American labor against
the evil effects of foreign immigration
and competition, we recognize also the
dangers which menace it at home, and
condemn as hostile to its cause and sub
versive of its dignity and power, the bold
and persistent usurpation in many Of the
states of its political rights and privileges.
The condition of the men who labor in
the north cannot be maintained or i'm
proved so long as the men who labor In
the south are wrongfully deprived Of the
rights and powers of American citizen
ship. Their labor meets In close and i'm
mediate competition, and neither can be
degraded without striking at the pros
perity and independence of the other.
Recognizing these plain truths Gge de-
mand free ballot and a fair count in all
sections of our country. We demand it
and will ever demand it as the only
source of justice to the real producers of
prosperity and wealth, and the sole Sc
curity of the Republic and its free insti-
tutiOns